Sales Transformation · Built on D365

Real sales transformation. Anchored in Dynamics 365.

Pipeline doesn't come from a platform install or a slide deck. It comes from a sales operation that understands how buyers actually decide. And a Dynamics 365 build that turns that understanding into measurable, repeatable revenue.

Primary platform
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Buyer
CRO · Sales Director · VP RevOps
Scope
Operating model · Platform · Forecast
Our thesis

Sales transformation that holds merges the art and the science.

Most sales transformations pick a side. The platform-led ones install a CRM and call it change. The motivation-led ones run a kick-off and call it growth. We do neither. Because real sales operations win on both at once.

Sales conversation
The art

What sells.

The room, the question, the moment a buying committee starts to move. The instinct that recognises a stalled deal before the CRM does. The conversation that turns a sceptic into an internal champion. The judgement only practitioners who have been there carry.

Sales analytics dashboard
The science

What scales.

Dynamics 365 Sales as the operating spine. Process Intelligence catching drift across the funnel. Agentic AI doing the research and qualification a week used to take. Signal data, weighted forecast, account momentum. Instinct turned into a measurable, repeatable system.

What we deliver

Real D365 sales transformation work, across the full motion.

Operating model, platform, measurement, and agent integration. Designed together, sequenced by risk. Every engagement led by practitioners who have sold, managed pipeline, and shipped D365 builds themselves.

Sales leadership reviewing operating model
01

Sales operating model redesign

Team shape, territory, segmentation and comp redesigned around the work that actually wins now. SDR/BDR/AE roles redrawn for the agent-augmented funnel, not the 2020 one.

Engineer at a D365 implementation
02

D365 Sales platform delivery

Greenfield builds, replatforms, and optimisations of live estates. Process design L1-3 done before configuration; configuration done by certified delivery partners we trust. The boundary matters. Most failed transformations confused the two.

Pipeline analytics dashboard
03

Pipeline measurement & forecast accuracy

From 'what was logged' to 'what's likely to land'. Process Intelligence on the D365 estate exposes where the funnel is leaking pipeline, and where forecast confidence is being inflated by hope.

Agentic AI in the sales stack
04

Agent & Copilot integration

Sales Qualification Agent, Sales Insights, and Microsoft Copilot wired into the D365 motion. Not bolted onto it. The agents change the team shape; the integration makes the change durable.

On the platform

The work lives in Dynamics 365 Sales.

One view across pipeline, forecast and rep activity. Designed so a CRO can read the operating state of the business in under thirty seconds, and a rep can find their next action in under three.

  • D365 Sales process design. L1-3 done before configuration
  • Sales Insights & Microsoft Copilot wired into the rep motion
  • Power Platform extensions for forecast accuracy and signal data
  • Integration to marketing automation and commercial data sources
  • Process Intelligence telemetry to keep the funnel honest
Dynamics 365 Sales · Pipeline viewQ3 · Forecast
£8.8m
Open pipeline
£4.1m
Weighted forecast
1.9×
Coverage vs. target
Pipeline by stage
Qualify· 42
£1.4m
Develop· 26
£3.1m
Propose· 14
£2.6m
Negotiate· 6
£1.2m
Close· 3
£540k
Recent activity · weighted next action
AE · J. RowanRenewal. Q3
AE · A. KowalskiExpansion. New BU
SDR · D. MehtaInbound · qualified
Agent · SQAAuto-qualified · 14
OpenWeighted forecast
Where AI sits inside the motion

The front of the funnel moved.

Autonomous agents now research, qualify, and tee up the conversation. The SDR validates. The AE closes. We redesign the operation around the new shape. And integrate the agents into D365 so the work is durable.

YESTERDAYList buildingSDR research & outreachQualificationAE closeAGENTS MOVE INTODAYAutonomous agentsSDR validatesQualified handoffAE close
What changed

The work the SDR was hired to do is being done elsewhere.

Three production agents now operate at the top of the funnel. Not in preview. Live, with paying customers, in 2025-2026.

Microsoft

Sales Qualification Agent

Researches leads against the open web and CRM data, runs personalised multi-turn email qualification, hands warm conversations to human reps.

Production · D365 Sales
Salesforce

Agentforce SDR

Autonomous inbound SDR. Generates outreach, qualifies via conversation, books meetings without human dispatch. Metered via Flex Credits.

Production · Sales Cloud
HubSpot

Breeze Prospecting

Researches and prospects against ICP criteria, drafts personalised outreach, sequences engagement, surfaces qualified replies for handoff.

Production · Enterprise

Each does the same thing: research, personalisation, multi-turn qualification, handoff. The work that defined a week of an SDR's calendar now happens in seconds, at marginal cost, twenty-four hours a day. This is not augmentation. It is substitution at the layer where most B2B sales orgs still allocate their largest headcount.

What the numbers say

The signs are already in your dashboard.

Salespeople spend 35.9% of their time selling. 28% of CRM-licensed users don't use the system consistently. Reps log roughly 11 hours a week into CRM. These aren't separate problems. They're the same problem, visible from four different reports.

What you're seeing
What it's telling you
Pipeline missing target, despite full SDR coverage
Top-of-funnel motion isn't producing qualified volume
Cost per lead climbing
Manual research and outreach no longer scale
SDR turnover above industry baseline
The role itself is becoming unrewarding to perform
Marketing-sales handoff disputes increasing
The handoff layer is doing work agents can do faster
AE time absorbed by qualification
Qualification is no longer where the AE adds value
Our method

The same discipline that runs every Ionyze engagement . applied to sales.

We are not a pure CRM implementer. We design the operation; certified delivery partners configure the platform. The boundary matters. Most failed sales transformations confused the two.

Method · Expose · Trace · Realign · Sustain
01

Expose

Replace assumed funnel performance with measured. Where qualification actually happens, what it costs per outcome, how much AE time it absorbs.

02

Trace

Find where the existing operation duplicates work an agent can now do, and where it's blind to work it should be doing.

03

Realign

Redesign team shape, process flow, and data inputs around the new top-of-funnel layer. Move the human work up the stack.

04

Sustain

Leave the operation able to run the new model without us, with the measurement to prove it's working.

Fixed-price entry product

Sales Funnel Diagnostic

A four-week engagement that exposes how much of your top-of-funnel work an autonomous agent could already absorb, and what your operation needs to look like once it does.

Duration
4 weeks
Output
Roadmap
Format
Fixed price
Week 1

Capture reality

Measure where SDR and AE time goes, where qualification happens, and what each qualified lead actually costs. Map the funnel as it runs, not as it's reported.

Weeks 2-3

Locate the shift

Identify which top-of-funnel activities production agents can already absorb. Quantify the gap between current cost and post-redesign cost, and the team-shape change implied.

Week 4

Findings and roadmap

Present a structured view of the redesign required: team shape, platform path, data prerequisites, sequencing. Decision-ready, not an inspiration deck.

Product · Early access

The work agents can't do is reading the room.

Commercial Intelligence is the shared sales memory layer for mid-market B2B teams. It captures what each rep learns from every buyer interaction, structures it against the accounts and contacts the work belongs to, and turns it into a signal the whole team can act on.

Most B2B deals are won or lost across a buying committee, not a single contact. CRM captures the what: calls logged, meetings held, stages moved. It captures almost nothing of the signal the rep in the room actually picked up. That intelligence currently lives in inboxes, side-conversations, and headcount churn. Commercial Intelligence makes it institutional.

01 · CAPTURE

Reps log buyer interactions in seconds, by voice or text.

After a call, between meetings, on the way back to the office. Capture is built so it never competes with selling time, and so what the rep heard doesn't decay before it gets recorded. Entity detection attaches every note to the contacts, accounts, leads, opportunities, projects, and orders it belongs to, with no manual tagging.

Screenshot to be added
Aldridge Holdings · Renewal Q3
Opportunity · £180k · Stage 3
14:32 · Today
Recording call notes
Voice → entity detection → attached
"Sarah Chen at Aldridge wants procurement review before sign-off. New stakeholder Marc Davies joining Tuesday, finance side, asking detailed questions about year-2 pricing. Send revised proposal with tier-2 option by Monday."
Sentiment · CautiousStakeholder addedAction: Send proposal · Mon
02 · READ

Sentiment scoring surfaces buying signals across the committee.

Buying decisions in B2B are not single-contact events. Commercial Intelligence reads sentiment against every entity in the buying group, champion, blocker, economic buyer, new joiner, silent observer, and turns the room temperature into a score the rep and the sales leader can both see. Whether the deal is improving or stalling becomes a number, not a feeling.

Screenshot to be added
Aldridge Holdings · Buying committee
Last 6 weeks → now
Sarah ChenVP Operations · Champion
+82
Marc DaviesCFO · New stakeholder
+34
Tom ReillyCIO · Economic buyer
−21
Priya ShahProcurement · Gatekeeper
+48
Account momentumComposite signal
+36
03 · SHARE

What one rep learns becomes what the team knows.

Insight propagates automatically to colleagues working the same accounts or buying committees. The CFO whose conversation closed sceptical last quarter is the same CFO joining this quarter's deal, and the rep walking into the meeting now knows it. Sales leaders see the rolled-up view of account, opportunity, and pipeline health without chasing reps for status updates that decay the moment they're written.

Screenshot to be added
Insight feed · Aldridge
4 new this week
JR
James Rowan · 2 days ago · met Marc Davies (CFO)
Marc joined Aldridge in May. Previously at Greenhill, where he ran a competitor procurement that went sideways. Will likely push for tier-2 pricing and 3-year guarantee.
AK
Anya Kowalski · 5 days ago · same buying committee, different deal
Tom Reilly's signal dropping across both opportunities. Pattern suggests internal budget review, not deal-specific concern. Cross-deal pattern
DM
Daniel Mehta · 1 week ago · Sarah Chen LinkedIn signal
Sarah posted publicly about operational efficiency targets for FY26. Champion narrative aligned to our value pitch. External signal

Commercial Intelligence is in early access with a small group of mid-market B2B sales organisations through 2026. Available to a limited number of additional design partners.

Who this is for

Where this work lands well.

For
  • Sales organisations of 50-500 reps including SDRs, BDRs, and AEs
  • Mid-market B2B businesses with CRM in place (D365 Sales, Salesforce, or HubSpot)
  • Pipeline missing target, cost per lead climbing
  • CROs and Sales Directors who suspect the model isn't holding
Not for
  • Sales-led functions under 25 reps where structural redesign is over-engineered
  • Enterprises whose top-of-funnel is already agent-orchestrated
  • Organisations whose CRM hasn't been adopted at all (start there first)
Evidence

First cases publishing soon.

2026 publishing schedule

The thesis is moving faster than case studies typically catch up with.

The agents went production within the last twelve months. The operations that have redesigned around them haven't yet completed a full pipeline cycle to report on. We are publishing the first set as engagements reach measurable outcomes.

In the meantime: the diagnostic is the proof.

Case study pipeline
  • Mid-market SaaS · 180 repsQ3 2026
  • B2B distribution · 90 repsQ4 2026
  • Professional services · 220 reps2027
~40% complete

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